Surrealist Chessboard, 1934. Collage, gelatin silver … · 196. 1.1. 1.2. Man Ray, Surrealist...

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196 1.1 1.2 Man Ray, Surrealist Chessboard, 1934. Collage, gelatin silver print, 46 x 30.2 cm. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Man Ray, Picasso, 1933. Gelatin silver print. 35.2 x 27.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Man Ray, Surrealist Chessboard, 1934. Collage, gelatin silver print, 46 x 30.2 cm. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Man Ray, Picasso, 1933. Gelatin silver print. 35.2 x 27.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Man Ray, 1934. India ink on paper, 34.5 x 24.8 cm. The Kantor Collection, Beverley Hills, California.

1.4 Man Ray, Hands painted by Picasso, ca. 1935. Gelatin silver print. 20 x 30.5 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

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1.5 Man Ray, Still life, 1933. Three-color carbon transfer print. 30.6 x 23 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

1.6 Brassaï, Picasso’s Palette, 1932–3. Minotaure, 1.1, (January 1933): 8.

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1.7 Man Ray, Dust Breeding, ca. 1920. Gelatin Silver Print. 9.2 x 12 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

1.8 Brassaï, Uncropped Print of Picasso’s Palette, 1932. Gelatin silver print. 23.5 x 18 cm. Picasso Archives, Musée Picasso, Paris.

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1.10 Pablo Picasso, Bull’s Head, 1942. Bronze casting from bicycle saddle and handlebars. 42 x 41 x 15 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

1.9 Man Ray, Uncropped Print of Dust Breeding, 1920, printed later. Gelatin silver print, 30.4 x 40.3 cm. Private collection, courtesy Galerie 1900–2000, Paris.

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1.11 Pablo Picasso, Painter and Model, 1928. Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 163. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1.12 Brassaï, Picasso’s Palette, 1939. Gelatin silver print, 32.6 x 27.3 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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1.13 Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Octopus, 1912. Platinum print. 41.8 x 31.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum, New York. 1.14 Man Ray, Transatlantic, 1921. Collage, 29.3 x 23.7 cm. Private collection, New York. (detail)

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1.15 Alfred Stieglitz, Fountain, 1917. Gelatin silver print. 11 x 17.9 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. 1.16 Henri-Pierre Roché, Duchamp’s Studio at 33 West 67th Street, New York, 1917–18. Photograph, 6.5 x 7.8 cm, Succession Marcel Duchamp.

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1.17 Henri-Pierre Roché, Duchamp’s Studio at 33 West 67th Street, New York, 1917. 6.5 x 7.8 cm, Succession Marcel Duchamp. 1.18 André Kertész, Chez Mondrian, 1928. Gelatin silver print. 11.4 x 7.9 cm. The Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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1.19 Pablo Picasso, Still life with a Butterfly, 1932. Fabric, wood, plants, string,

thumbtack, butterfly, and oil paint on canvas, 16 x 22 x 2.5 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

1.20 Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas. 24.1 x 33 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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1.21 Jacques-André Boiffard, Flies on Fly Paper, 1930. Documents 8 (1930): 488.

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2.1 Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, West African Hut Pinnacles. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 19.

2.2 Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, West African Hut with Pinnacle, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 18.

2.3 Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, The Bani River, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 18.

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2.3 Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, The Bani River, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 18.

2.4a Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, a Sacrifice of a Bull in Gondar, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2, (January 1933): 32.

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2.4b Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, a Sacrifice of a Bull in Gondar, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 32.

2.4c Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, a Sacrifice of a Bull in Gondar, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 33.

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2.4d Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, a Sacrifice of a Bull in Gondar, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 33.

2.4e Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, a Sacrifice of a Bull in Gondar, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 34.

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2.5 Brassaï and Salvador Dalí, Involuntary Sculptures, 1933. Minotaure 1.3–4 (December 1933): 68.

2.6 Brassaï, Picasso’s Object, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 14.

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2.7 Brassaï, View of Picasso’s rue de La Boétie Studio, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 12.

2.8. Brassaï, View of Picasso’s rue de La Boétie Studio, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 13.

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2.9 Brassaï, Picasso’s Wood Sculptures, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 23.

2.10 Brassaï, Picasso’s Palette, 1932–3. Minotaure, 1.1, (January 1933): 8.

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2.11 Brassaï, Picasso’s Boisgeloup Heads, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 26.

2.12 Brassaï, Picasso’s Welded Iron Sculptures, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 20–21.

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2.13 Brassaï, Picasso’s Plaster Sculptures, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 18–9.

2.14 Brassaï, Entrance to Picasso’s Boisgeloup Studio. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 15.

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2.15 Brassaï, Picasso’s Model for the Apollinaire Monument, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 22.

2.16 Brassaï, View of Picasso’s rue de La Boétie Studio (Top: L’étagère, bottom: La Fenêtre), 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 27.

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2.17 Brassaï, Boisgeloup after Dark, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 17. 2.18 Member of the Dakar Djibouti Expedition, Mothers of Masks as found in a Cave in Mali, 1930–2. Minotaure 1.2 (January 1933): 10.

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3.1 Brassaï, Picasso’s “The Crane,” 1942. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 119.

3.2 Brassaï, Picasso’s “Death Head,” 1943. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 162.

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3.3 Brassaï, Picasso’s “Man with a Sheep,” 1944. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 193.

3.4 Brassaï, Picasso’s Paper Sculpture, 1943. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 135.

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3.5 Brassaï, Picasso’s “Cigar” 1941. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 87.

3.6 Brassaï, Picasso’s Engraved Pebbles, 1937–40. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plates 100, 101, 102.

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3.7 Brassaï, Picasso’s Crumpled Paper Sculpture, 1943. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne,1948, plate 176.

3.8 Brassaï, Boisgeloup after Dark, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 17.

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3.9 Alfred Stieglitz, Picasso’s Fernande’s Head, 1911. Camera Work: Special Number Matisse-Picasso (August, 1912) : 13.

3.10 Émile Delétang, Picasso’s “Glass of Absinthe,” 1914. Gelatin silver print, Picasso Archives, Musée Picasso, Paris.

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3.11 Brassaï, Picasso’s Sculptures 19, Contact Sheet number 19, 1946–9. Five contact prints, no. 51 to no. 51d: Glass of Absinthe, bronze and absinthe spoon, 1914; Two contact prints no. 52 to no. 52a: Metamorphosis II, bronze, 1928; Two contacts from no. 53 to no. 53a Metamorphosis I, bronze 1928; Three contact prints no. 30 to no. 30 b: Vertical Hand, bronze, 1943. Gelatin silver proofs pasted on cardboard and annotated by the photographer, 24 x 32 cm. Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

3.12 Brassaï, Picasso’s Sculptures 1, Contact Sheet number 1, 1946–9. six contacts no. 11 to no. 11e: Death’s Head: bronze, 1943. Gelatin silver proofs pasted on cardboard and annotated by the photographer, 24 x 32 cm. Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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3.13 Brassaï, Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, cover.

3.14 Brassaï, Picasso’s “Hand,” 1943, Proof of a Gelatin silver contact, 27.8 x 19.3 cm. Contact sheet 24, (1946–9). Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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3.15 Pablo Picasso, Study of the Artist’s Hands, 1919. Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: Documents iconographique. Paris, Pierre Cailler, 1963, p. 124

3.15a Pablo Picasso, Study of the Artist’s Hands, 1919. Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: Documents iconographique. Paris, Pierre Cailler, 1963, p. 125.

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3.16 Nick de Morgoli, Picasso’s Hands, 1938. Jaime Sabartés , Picasso: Documents iconographique. Paris, Pierre Cailler, 1963, p. 156.

3.16a Nick de Morgoli, Picasso’s Hands, 1938. Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: Documents iconographique. Paris, Pierre Cailler,1963, p. 157.

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3.17 Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati, Le Surréalisme en 1947 (Prière du toucher), 1947. Modified Readymade: collage of foam-rubber breast and velvet mounted on board, 23.5 x 20.5 cm. Museum of modern Art, New York.

3.18 Brassaï, Pablo Picasso’s “Fist,” 1948. Les Sculpture de Picasso. Paris, Chêne,1948, plate 216.

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3.19 Brassaï, Picasso and the Orator, 1939. Les Sculpture de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, p. ii.

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4.2 Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1931. Bronze, 87 x 30 x 45 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

4.1 Henri Matisse, Jeanette V, 1913. Bronze, 58.0 x 20.8 x 28.7 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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4.3 Pablo Picasso, Head, 1928. Painted brass and iron, 18 x 11 x 7.5 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

4.4 Constantin Brancusi, Kiss, 1909. Stone, height 89.5 cm. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.

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4.6 Constantin Brancusi, Self Portrait with Endless Columns, 1920/3. Gelatin silver Print, 16.5 x 20. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

4.5 Brassaï, Picasso’s Cigarette Box Construction at his Studio, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 13.

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4.8 Brassaï, Boisgeloup after Dark, 1932–3. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 17.

4.7 Brassaï and Constantin Brancusi, Photographs of Sculptures by Brancusi, Despiau, Giacometti, Lipchitz, and Maillol. Minotaure 3–4 (December 1933): 40–41. 4.7a Brancusi, Photogrpah of Newborn[?], 1933. detail of 4.7

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4.9 Constantin Brancusi, Photographs of Brancusi’s Sculptures and Studio, in Minotaure 3–4 (December 1933): 42–3. 4.9.a detail of 4.9. 4.9.b detail of 4.9. 4.10 Brassaï, Picasso’s Palette, 1932–3. Minotaure, 1.1, (January 1933): 8.

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4.11 Brassaï, Maillol’s Studio, in Minotaure 3–4 (December 1933): 52–3. 4.12 Pablo Picasso, The Orator, 1933, bronze, 183.5 x 66 x 27 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

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4.13 Pablo Picasso, Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, 1933. Bronze, 62.2 x 42.5 x 28.9 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

4.14 Pablo Picasso, Woman with Leaves, 1933. Bronze, 37.9 x 20 x 25.9 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

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4.16 Brassaï, Lipchitz’s Studio, in Minotaure 3–4 (December 1933) 50–51.

4.15 Pablo Picasso, Etchings of “The Sculptor’s Studio” from The Vollard Suite. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 24.

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4.18 Brassaï, Giacometti’s Studio, in Minotaure 3–4 (December 1933): 46–7.

4.17 Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1931. Plaster, 71.5 x 33 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

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4.19 Sculptures by André Breton, and Gala Éluard, in La Surréalisme au Service de la Révolution 1 (December 1931): 20. 4.20 Sculptures by Valentin Hugo, and Salvador Dalí in La Surréalisme au Service de la Révolution 1 (December 1931): 21.

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4.21 Photographs of L’Exposition Anti-Impérialiste: La Vérité sur les colonies, reproduced in La Surréalisme au Service de la Revolution 4, (December 1931): 40.

4.22 Pablo Picasso, Figure (“The Christmas Tree”), 1931. Les Sculptures de Picasso. Paris, Chêne, 1948, plate 22.

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4.23 Brassaï , Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Woman, and Sumerian Figure (photographer unknown). André Malraux, La Psychologie de l’art: La Musée Imaginaire. Paris, Skira, 1948, p. 126.

4.24 Sumerian Figure, upper left corner (unknown photographer). André Malraux, La Psychologie de l’art: La Musée Imaginaire. Paris, Skira, 1948, p. 28.

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4.26 Jean Fautrier, Large Tragic Head, 1943. Bronze, 34,8 x 17,2 x 21,1 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

4.25 Detail of figure 4.23, 4.24. André Malraux, La Psychologie de l’art: La Musée Imaginaire. Paris, Skira, 1948, p. 29.

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4.27 Pablo Picasso, Head, 1943. Stone, 32.8 x 34.7 cm. Private collection. 4.28 Pablo Picasso, Bull’s Head, 1942. Bronze casting from bicycle saddle and handlebars. 42 x 41 x 15 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

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5.1 Pablo Picasso, Photograph of Head of a Woman and Bust of a Woman in the Studio in Boisgeloup, 1931. John Richardson with the Collaboration of Marilyn McCully, A Life with Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917–1932, New York: Knoff, 2007, p. 446.

5.2 Pablo Picasso, Photograph of Head of a Woman and Bust of a Woman in the Studio in Boisgeloup, 1931, in John Richardson with the Collaboration of Marilyn McCully, A Life with Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917–1932, New York, Knoff, 2007, p. 447.

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5.3 Pablo Picasso, Photograph of Head of a Woman and Bust of a Woman in the Studio in Boisgeloup, 1931, in John Richardson with the Collaboration of Marilyn McCully, A Life with Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917–1932, New York, Knoff, 2007, p. 446.

5.4 Pablo Picasso, Wall arrangement of papier collés in the boulevard Raspail Studio (No. 1), Paris, winter 1912. Gelatin silver print, 3.5 x 4.625 cm. Private collection.

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5.5 Brassaï, Head of a Woman in Picasso’s Boisgeloup Studio, 1932. Minotaure 1.1 (January 1933): 25.

5.6 Brassaï, Picasso’s Sculpture 5, Contact Sheet Number 5, 1942–6. Four contact prints no. 43 to 43c: Head of a Woman, bronze, 1931. Five contact prints no. 44 to no. 44d: Bust of a Woman, bronze, 1931. Four contact prints no. 23 to no 23c: Head of a Woman, bronze, 1931. Gelatin silver proofs pasted on cardboard and annotated by the photographer, 24 x 32 cm. Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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5.7 Lee Miller, Picasso and the Photographer in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins Studio, 1944. Gelatin silver print.23 x 20.1 cm. Lee Miller’s Archives, England.

5.8 David Douglas Duncan, Man with a Sheep, Esmeralda the Goat and Lump the Dachshund in the Garden of Picasso’s Villa La Californie, 1957. Gelatin silver print, 23 x 20.1, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas.

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5.9 Brassaï, Picasso’s Head of a Woman, Man with a Sheep, and Cat in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins Studio, 1943. Proof of Gelatin silver contact, 29.9 x 20.2 cm. Picasso Archives, Musée Picasso, Paris.

5.10 Brassaï, Sculpture de Picasso, Contact Sheet Number 2, 1942–6. Six contact prints no. 40 to no. 40e: Man with a Sheep, plaster 1943. three contact prints, no. 16; no. 22; Woman with a long Dress, bronze 1943. two contact prints no. 1a and no. 1: Man with a Helmet, bronze 1933. Gelatin silver proofs pasted on cardboard and annotated by the photographer, 24 x 32 cm. Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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5.11 Dora Maar, Picasso’s Standing Woman, 1941. Proof of Gelatin silver contact, 6 x 6 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris.

5.12 Brassaï, Contact Sheet Number 15, 1942–6. Nine contact prints, no. 37 to no. 37h: Standing Woman, bronze, 1941. Two contact prints from no. 36 to no. 36a: Standing Man, bronze, 1942. Gelatin silver proofs pasted on cardboard and annotated by the photographer, 24 x 32 cm. Brassaï files, Photographic archives, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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5.12a, 5.12b Brassaï, Details of 5.12 also in Les Sculptures de Picasso, 1948, Paris, Chêne 1948, plates 114, 115.

5.13 Brassaï, Picasso’s Head of a Woman (Dora Maar), 1941. Les Sculptures de Picasso, 1948, Paris, Chêne 1948: 116.

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5.14 Robert Capa, Picasso with his Woman with a Long Dress and Head of a Warrior, 1944. “New French Art,” Life Magazine (November 13, 1944): 76.

5.15 Brassaï, Picasso’s Woman with a Long Dress in front of L’Aubade, 1946. Proof of Gelatin silver contact, 25.6 x 17.9. Picasso archives, Musée Picasso, Paris.

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6.1 Brassaï, The “Museum” in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins Studio, 1943. Proof of gelatin silver contact. 3.5 x 4.625 cm. Picasso archives, Musée Picasso, Paris.